Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt

Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt (* 1678 in Altruppin ; † June 10, 1753 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was an architect and builder in East Prussia .

Life

Ludwig von Unfriedt, as he called himself, was the third child of Neumark Office Chamber council and chamber master to Küstrin Joachim Scultetus and Amalie Luise von Stosch . The family came from Silesia , where they had given their Bonendorf estate in the Duchy of Glogau to the Church of Sagan and received an inheritance office for it. Unfriedt moved into the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt in 1689 . Then Elector Friedrich III sent him . from Brandenburg to study in France and Italy. On January 9, 1702 he made Unfriedt a Royal Prussian engineer and master builder and made him head of the building department in Königsberg and thus the overall supervision of the entire royal building industry in East Prussia. In addition, Unfriedt also had private clients such as Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1661–1728) , for whom he designed his castle in Schlobitten . From 1705 to 1713 Unfriedt led the renovation of a side wing of the Königsberg Palace , later named Unfriedtbau after him. King Friedrich Wilhelm I ended this project with his accession to the throne and released Unfriedt, who went to Berlin . On November 18, 1721, Friedrich Wilhelm called him back to Königsberg as the successor of John von Collas on the occasion of the reorganization of the building industry in Prussia . As an architect and town planner, Unfriedt had greater powers from then on in the position of Oberlandbaudirektor in the Kingdom of Prussia . In the capital Königsberg, he worked in the War and Domain Chamber founded in 1723 as the chief construction officer and councilor until his death.

buildings

A number of no longer preserved buildings in Königsberg come from him, as well as residential and communal buildings, especially in the cities of Tapiau , Ragnit , Gumbinnen , Darkehmen , Stallupönen , Schirwindt and Bialla, which were usually expanded or rebuilt in a rectangular pattern according to his development plans .

• French Reformed Church (Königsberg) , not preserved
• Schlobitten Castle , burned down in 1945, the ruins have been preserved
• Church in Kaukehmen , received

photos

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  The Unfried wing in Königsberg Castle

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  French Reformed Church

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  The Tragheimer Church

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  Schlobitten Castle in the 19th century

literature

• Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
• Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia . Reprint of the original edition, Stuttgart 1899.
• Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia . 3 volumes. Böhlau, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
• Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg - history of a world citizenship republic . Hanser , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1 .
• Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg. Between Memel and fresh lagoon . Trescher, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X .
• Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum Druck, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 .
• Hermann Heckmann : Builder of the Baroque and Rococo in Brandenburg-Prussia . Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-345-00631-6 , pp. 251-257.
• Wulf D. Wagner: The Königsberg castle. A building and cultural history. Vol. I: From the foundation to the government of Friedrich Wilhelm I (1255-1740). Regensburg 2008, ISBN 3795419360 .
• Wulf D. Wagner, Heinrich Lange: The Königsberg castle. A building and cultural history. Vol. II: From Frederick the Great to the Demolition (1740-1967 / 68). The fate of its collections after 1945. Regensburg 2011, ISBN 3795419530 .